[PATCH v5] ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus

Tze-nan.Wu Tze-nan.Wu at mediatek.com
Tue Apr 25 01:41:04 PDT 2023


From: "Tze-nan Wu" <Tze-nan.Wu at mediatek.com>

In ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus, the buffer_size_kb write operation
may permanently fail if the cpu_online_mask changes between two
for_each_online_buffer_cpu loops. The number of increases and decreases
on both cpu_buffer->resize_disabled and cpu_buffer->record_disabled may be
inconsistent, causing some CPUs to have non-zero values for these atomic
variables after the function returns.

This issue can be reproduced by "echo 0 > trace" while hotplugging cpu.
After reproducing success, we can find out buffer_size_kb will not be
functional anymore.

To prevent leaving 'resize_disabled' and 'record_disabled' non-zero after
ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus returns, we ensure that each atomic variable
has been set up before atomic_sub() to it.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: npiggin at gmail.com
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07 ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Jui Wang <cheng-jui.wang at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Tze-nan Wu <Tze-nan.Wu at mediatek.com>
---
Changes from v4 to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230412112401.25081-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
  - Move the define before the function
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 76a2d91eecad..253ef85a9ec3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -5345,6 +5345,9 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_reset_cpu);
 
+/* Flag to ensure proper resetting of atomic variables */
+#define RESET_BIT	(1 << 30)
+
 /**
  * ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus - reset a ring buffer per CPU buffer
  * @buffer: The ring buffer to reset a per cpu buffer of
@@ -5361,20 +5364,27 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus(struct trace_buffer *buffer)
 	for_each_online_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
 
-		atomic_inc(&cpu_buffer->resize_disabled);
+		atomic_add(RESET_BIT, &cpu_buffer->resize_disabled);
 		atomic_inc(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled);
 	}
 
 	/* Make sure all commits have finished */
 	synchronize_rcu();
 
-	for_each_online_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
+	for_each_buffer_cpu(buffer, cpu) {
 		cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
 
+		/*
+		 * If a CPU came online during the synchronize_rcu(), then
+		 * ignore it.
+		 */
+		if (!(atomic_read(&cpu_buffer->resize_disabled) & RESET_BIT))
+			continue;
+
 		reset_disabled_cpu_buffer(cpu_buffer);
 
 		atomic_dec(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled);
-		atomic_dec(&cpu_buffer->resize_disabled);
+		atomic_sub(RESET_BIT, &cpu_buffer->resize_disabled);
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
-- 
2.18.0




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